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Snow day! Up to (according to the hopeful drift-lovers in the area) eight inches expected by nightfall. (Don’t laugh at me, Maddy Barone, I know this is just skiffles compared to yours.) Although I am a confirmed winter-hater, it is a pretty one—fat flakes coming straight down, calm and quiet.
But since school got called and I had planned a couple days off toward the end of the week for work-at-home purposes, I just got the boss’ blessing to rearrange their order.
(And yes, I have been working away all morning. It’s break time.)
And since it’s break time, snow day tradition calls for a full pot of strong and fortifying PG Tips with milk. Nothing new to say about it, other than it’s dark and sharp and what one needs when you’re droopy. Evidently not everybody values it like I do, according to an article shared by another builders’ tea fan:
Say it ain’t so.
I would like some snow here as well please. I hate that it is so dark and white snow it brights at least life a little.
You can have mine! Lack of light and color certainly affects my mood and outlook in the winter! I am doing a little better than usual this winter; I think in part because my office light fixtures were replaced with good LED bulbs. I don’t have to sit in a dim room eight hours a day.
My lights are decent here too, but the life outside?
Sam Dunwoodie obviously hasn’t seen the tea community on instagram :P
I know what good tea looks like; I’d rather read your reviews! :)
I haven’t been on in a few days (or more) so I had no idea you had snow! Just the thought of it makes me want my mom’s chicken and pastry…
Although PG Tips are accessible locally in the bagged version, loose-leaf hasn’t been around, judging from my tasting notes, for 5-6 years. The drought is over. The family Giftmeister saw to it that there was a multi-pack under the Christmas tree. So glad to have some back under my roof. Winter morning wakey-wakey is getting harder these days.
For those of you who have never imbibed, the only way to describe PG Tips is “just plain good strong tea.” No flavory or flowery nuances, a little sharp on the tongue if you steep too long; a lovely blank canvas for milk.
You’ve been there. It’s the last ounce of “it’s getting old, but if I drink it now, it will be gone!”
However, we had our first frost of the season last night, my flannel sheets were far too cozy, and I had to get my chilly hindquarters out the door. Builders tea required.
For the record, I realize PG Tips isn’t exactly a rare breed; I just can’t find the loose leaf locally any more and I’m cheap—hate paying shipping on something I should be able to find at the grocery store.
Breaking in to the distressingly dwindling hoarded stash this morning: can now find PG Tips bagged locally, but not loose leaf. But some cold mornings, strong, sharp, stout builders tea is the only thing that will do. Like when it’s your week to teach seventeen fifth and sixth graders who are post-Thanksgiving sated, have been cooped up inside during a four-day weekend because of a multi-day deluge, and pre-Christmas hepped. Praying for grace and a sense of humor!
You have heard everything I have to say about my beloved PG Tips looseleaf (dark, strong, punchy) so I wandered onto their website to see if I could find a postworthy tidbit. Here’s one:
http://www.pgtips.co.uk/newrange/
New varieties. A STRONG blend of PG Tips, as if the original won’t boot you out the door in the morning. Anybody seen these in your locality in the US? (We’re lucky to have the conventional type available.)
I will keep an eye out for it, and will ask Gav to look in Ireland. He just sent some Marks and Spencer breakfast tea and I know it comes in grades like that. I think I have the strong, but it really doesn’t taste that strong to me, maybe it does just refer to the caffeine.
Can’t say that I have seen them in the groceries I frequent, but I’ll check my local British Import shop, British Isles in Houston.
Might check with Brits store in Lawrence
Looking at the Brits website, it doesn’t look like they carry the Strong One. Though since it is new, they might have it in a few months…
Oh, and if you ever want anything from the Brits store, I’d be happy for an excuse to go over to Lawrence and send you something from my trip. :)
I have a friend who tells me how cool Brits is. Our recreational travels generally point us south instead of north, but I’m thinking I may need to re-think that ;)
If you get up this way, definitely let me know! :)
Just got a message from Gav asking if we want any tea from Ireland. I asked him to keep an eye out for this one at the grocery. If he finds it, he will bring it to me the third week of October.
I am a walking cuppa Lapsang Souchong … we burned a huge pile of dead limbs (tree limbs, not people parts) in the back yard this afternoon. Had a quart of good old PG Tips chilled in the fridge to swig—strong and straight enough for my sweaty spouse to guzzle without quibbling about it.
This is hilarious: “I am a walking cuppa Lapsang Souchong”!
lol
Whew! I am glad you qualified that “limbs” part. I was afraid your zombie bunny had gone all Monty Python on the neighbors!
Aw, it’s only a flesh wound…
L O L !
But its got HUGE TEETH!
(giggles)
Don’t worry. He has no eyes. He can’t see anything to bite it.
I don’t like subtle iced teas. I need my cold stuff to whap me upside the head. This does exactly that.
Page 232 of Ye Olde and Flaky Tea Drinker’s Companion (I made that up, don’t look for it on Amazon) states flatly that when the morning temperature dips below 20 degrees, nothing but PG Tips will antifreeze you. Who am I to argue.
No real maple syrup in the house, but a drizzle of Aunt Jemima made it almost as good as pancakes.
So much going on to distress and distract (today, car wouldn’t start; isn’t life messy?) I’ve ruined more cups of tea than I’ve gotten right over the past week.
Therefore, I turned to my old friend, no-fail, can’t-mess-it-up-no-matter-what. I’m sure I have a few more of those that would qualify, but this one was the first that came to mind and to hand.
How about you? Other teas you can’t goof with whether you understeep, oversteep, or use the wrong temp?
Pure mint. : )
Bet your battery croaked because they like to do that in chilly weather and you are having some of the first low temps! I hope that it all it is!
Oh, Ruby 18 simply can’t go bitter! What a great tea! Also called Ruby Black at Shui Tea. Highly recommend.
Ahhh…it’s back under my roof. Basic black, milk-welcoming, cold-weather staple that it is. Four lovely bulk ounces, minus a really, really heaping teaspoon to boot myself out the door this morning.
With apologies to Robert Frost — this tea is lovely, dark, and deep. I’ve miles to go before I sleep. Glad I’ve got this one close to hand.
Continuing to enjoy the fact that a) I can actually find this inexpensively and loose leaf locally and b) You cannot ruin this tea, not by understeeping, oversteeping, being chintzy with the dry leaves, or spiking with condensed milk that’s just short of questionable expiration. It’s all good.
Wait, you can find this cheaply?!? Buy in bulk my friend, buy in bulk!!!
When trying to explain to my daughter’s boyfriend (who lives in Northern Ireland) the taste of a tea I was offering, I finally said, “Have you ever heard of PG Tips?” and he answered, “Of COURSE, I have!” This is very popular there! Some of our nicer groceries carry it but you can’t find it in many of them.
In my part of SW Missouri, most people’s idea of high-quality tea is flavored Lipton or grocery-store Tazo. So the ability to pick this up affordably at a little locally owned health food store is a real treat!
I missed that this is the loose leaf kind! I have to drive over 2 hours to get that….locally they only sell bags.
